Ben Jackson wrote:
On 2007-04-09, Peter Dohm wrote:
The one that I was familiar with was a case of a a good sized
development that had, for want of a better word, fizzled.

I turned in to one of those when I was visiting Houston, TX. It was
a whole suburban neighborhood of roads, with mature trees all around,
but no houses at all. It was surreal.

There used to be one of these in Kansas City, Missouri, as well. In
this case, though, the area _used_ to be full of houses. The houses
were bought and razed some time in the late 1960s or early 1970s,
nominally for the purpose of building a highway, but allegedly for the
purpose of "cleaning up a bad part of town". There were trees, streets,
street signs, and even street lights, but no houses. About 25 years
later, they finally built the highway - US 71. The place I remember was
on the north side of 63rd St.

Matt Roberds